filed 26 birds in two minutes and 53 seconds. The first 
it were double birds, traps forty yards apart, the shooter 
-anding midway between the trapB, as is his custom. A 
umber of sweepstakes preceded the exhibition matches. 
—A match at snow birds was shot at Erie, Penn., on the 
Jill ult., usual conditions, 1± ounces shot, with the follow- 
ig Tesult:— 
tSaraB. Score. I Name. Score. 
W. Daffy .11 P. Galtiraito...? 
Graham.. ,...in | J. E. Graham.7 
A new spoilsmen's club has been started at Erie. 
An International, Pigeon Match. —Wo learn from an 
schange that arrangements have been perfected at Read- 
:g, Penn., for a grand international pigeon shooting match, 
ien to all pigeon shooters in America and Europe. The 
'urnament will last three days. On the first day the con¬ 
st will be for the championship of the world at double 
xd shooting. On the second day will be decided the sin- 
e bird match for the championship of the world. On 
e third day there will be a match at fifty birds, open to 
1, and several sweepstakes. In the double bird match 
e contestants will be allowed to shoot at twenty-five 
luble birds each. In the single bird match the number 
: birds that each competitor will shoot at will be one hon¬ 
ed, Hurliiigham rules. The prizes will be a champion 
amend medal and two money prizes. 
St. Louis, March siith, 1876. 
MTOR POllEST AND STREAM I — 
The miserable weather which has prevented the “long william” gentle- 
1 , who annually visit us, aueut this tune, answering to their oft i 
Mted names, has made the “hoys” quite desperate, and their madness 
iminated to-day. The rumblings of the coming Btorm, had been 
town, and heeded, by the “gamins” of our streets, |who responded 
orally, and the resultwas, about 510 innocent pigeons, ready for the 
inghter. 
The first event was a match between Mr. C. Jeff. Clark and Mr. W. 
Wadsworth, for $25 a side; 10 single birds at 81 yards rise, and 5 
rs at 26 yards rise. It was won by Mr. Clark, by a very handsome 
re. (I have mislaid the score, therefore am unable to give it in detail), 
er this shoot, commenced the regular work of the day, the medal 
hr. Considering the weather, rain, wind, and cold, the shooting w 
ty good. The terms of the match-were same as usual at ail of c 
ib matches: Ji; tingle birds, 21 yards rise, 80 yards bonndary, “11 and 
traps. The following is the score .— 
.. Name. ' Total.i Name. Total. 
C. Pierce.10 Jog. Luc<<« » 
Hirer Hewlett.10 limit. l“ 
,pt. J. Sedam. K> vV 
. H. Wadsworth.« Jn 
11. C. I,ueas . (i J. 
Jh.Hinkle. ii.cn 
o. A. Kingoid. !l 
>. M. Violent.il 
P. Card. U .. _ 
. C. Clnistie. 8 C. Jeff. Clark 
M. Williams..... 8 W. Wtepans. 3 
Ties on ten birds at 26 yards rise: H. C. Pierce, I; Capt ■). Scdam, 
Luther Keimctt, 3. Ties on 1 at :JI yards rise: II. O. Pierce. 2; Capt. 
dum, 0. The result gave the champion medal to Mr. Tierce. 
After Hie regular shoot was pleasantly disposed of, there yet remained 
iuppiy or birds on hand, and as it is against the principles of eachin- 
■idual of the club, to leave the field, so long as there Is a bird left able 
fly, or course a sweepstake shoot was Introduced. In order to permit 
gentlemen present to testtheir ‘"choke-bores" at long range, the dis- 
ce was made 81 yards and 5 birds, $2 entrance, 80 yards huundry—the 
tails: The score is not brilliant, but considering that many Contesting 
d not shot before at that distance, it is fair. In this connection we 
mid suggest, to xmrsons desiring to become proficient at pigeon shaot- 
p, if they would discard the 21 yard rise for 31 yards, their progress 
mid ne much more rapid, and their judgment, as to angles and dis- 
ce, so matetio! iu wing shouting, would become much more perfect 
n they can ever attain while shooting at shorter range. The follow- 
shows the result of the sweepstake, 81 yards rise: — 
Name Total. Name. Total. 
Clias. U. Tomer.....'..a 
Eugene Capelle 
.... _ . Wilson . 
A. Albright .. 
;i. W. Muiikou,. 
!U. 8. Cbontoaii .. 
Chad. H. Turner. 
Plunk West . 
W. L. Seott. 
Capelle... 
Capt . J. Seiiam ... 
W. A. Albright... 
Jos. P. Card. 
Jno, A. Kinanld.. 
Hunt. P. Wilson.. 
Chouteau,.. 
M. Williams.4 i! 
ank West. 
. Christie_ 
o. M. Vimont,. 
Jeff. Clatk.4 .J 
O. Pierce... 
B. C. Lucas. 
Pies on Pat 81 yards: 
Name. Total.] Name. Totul. 
Jeff. Clark.8 W. C. Christie. 1 
ank West...2 Jno. M. Vimom_. ...0 
8. Chouteau.l|c. M. Williams.0 
Pies on 3,-31 yards : 
Name. Total,! Name. Totul. 
B. C. Lucas.S C. H. Turner.I 
pi. Sudani .•.2 11. C. Pierce.0 
-Capeile,.,. ........ 
Second tie on 3,31 yards. 
Name. Total.] Name. Total. 
B, C. Lucas...,.2|Capt. Sedam. ..2 
.'bird tie on 3,81 yards 
Name. Total.] Name. Total. 
!...3|Sedara. 2 
Pile St. Lonis Gun Club and the Quincy Club, hold their first shoot of 
‘home and home" match, at Quincy, Ill., about 15th of April. 
ST. LOI 
FLANNEL SHOT CARTRIDGES. 
Baltimore, Md., Maroli 3l8i, 1876. 
itor Forest and Stream; — 
laving noticed the idea in “ou.r paper” of flannel bags for shot cat- 
Igep, will say for the benefit of “Hall” (in this weak's Issue, March 
h,) that I made a very limited experiment with them last week wlide 
yoking ducks. 
I only made a few of the bags to put into the shells, and not hav- 
; tried them, at a target, cannot Bay how they distribute the shot, but 
inclined to think they are very irregular, as one duck I killed with 
(in—a hen red-head—although more than eighty yards from the muz- 
of the gun, which, by the way, Is a relief bore, 10-gauge Greener, 9£ 
inds, had a hole through the breast large enough to insert a man’s 
jerinto. The flannel I need was a piece of navy bine coating, and 
de Lhe bags by running up the Sides and one end upon a Sewing ma¬ 
ne, and after inserting the shot, tying the open oDd with thread. I 
■X 1 that some of our (if yon will permit the expression) correspondents 
o have time and opportunity, would try these at a tai&e* and give us 
i results’, for if they are regular In the distribution of their loads 
y must certainly be very useful, as they will kill from fifteen to 
inty yards further than loose shot. 
loping that, as twerof your correspondents have already called atteh- 
n to them, others will feel interested enough to give them a fair trial, 
Which all the merits and demerits will be brought up and discussed. 
A Boor Shot. 
A TRIP TO BIG LAKE, 
itor Forest and Stream:— 
itibruary 20th, myself and three others left St. Louis over the Iron 
luntain ltailroad for a few days sport. We arrived at Williainsville, 
i., 145 miles from St Louis at seven-thirty in the evening. The pio- 
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noer guide imd beat hunter JoeDeiue, met uBHt the depot wilh a nice little 
span of bays and a spring wagon, and everything in readiness for a few 
day’s sport. We drove twenty Seven miles by half past twolve, and 
pitched our tent, on the hill one and a half miles from the lake anil then 
retired for the night. But being so close to the enemy we could not 
sleep mncli'; we were up at buir past four and had everything rn readi¬ 
ness to move by daybreak. We arrived at tbe long looked for lake by 
the time it was getting light. We could hear the firing of tbe guns of 
some other sportsmen before we arrived. We concluded we woulu pro¬ 
spect a little before we settled down for the fight, and lifter making a 
few shots our guide advised us to move down the lake, and take mir 
stand ou the paints where the ducks were in the habit of crossing over, 
and not to run aronnd but to keep our stands. He assured us if we would 
take his advice we would be sure to havB fine shooting, and our success 
would be certain. We did so and I am convinced he knew what he was 
talking about. I was standing on a divide between two lnfcos with my 
friend Dave Jones, ho being about seventy yards from mo; the wind had 
sprung up and it was blowing quite lively, but it proved to be an advan¬ 
tage iu our favor as the ducks kept on the lakes, but would fly from one 
to the other. They would fly very low, just above the weeds and grass, 
and would occasionally Btart off for the field, but the wind being so 
strong they returned again lo the lake. About two in the afternoon tbe 
clouds began to loom up as If it was go'-ng to storm. Then the fun 
commenced; the ducks began to fly, we could not load half fast Bnongb. 
Suck shooting and excitement I never saw; three of us shooting just as 
fast as we could load. We often got two and three ducks a piece from 
a flock. We kept this up until near night, having killed eighty-nine 
ducks, one brant, eight geese, and one crane. We thought this fun 
enough for one day, sd we hitched up our team and started for camp. 
B. 
GEORGIA NOTES. 
Eubanks P. O., March 2, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I like “AiiqtHs”' experience in fox-hunting, as he describes it, but 
must acknowledge I can't see the necessity of so much “horn-blowing,” 
that Is totally different from any fox-hunt that it was ever my fortune to 
be in. With us, we use a cow’s horn, some handed down as heirlooms 
for generations on account of the mellowness of their sound; of course 
some have them handsomely mounted, bnt like everything belonging to 
the chase, they are held n,r, fictitious prices, and many can not ho bought, 
although a hundred perhaps as good arc ornamenting the heads of our 
cattle. Our horns oifiy sound to collect our dogs, before wc “strike a 
trail,” and at the death for the stragglers. Mmiy fox-hunters never 
■•ballon" to their hounds, as it runs the fox off; the bnmnn voice terri- 
fyiug them more than even the eye of the pack. Tire fox’s nsual course 
being a circle, and we riding the diameter until his “doubles” shows his 
weariness. The fox (reu) is no “slouch" himself if not too exhausted: 
nearly alt my hounds bear their murks on their noses. A neighbor 
plowing, saw a red hitch of minetpuck haviuf split after two foxes) catch 
a fox, who whipped her off and belli lay down; every time the fox would 
get tip she would go for him, aud on the sixth trial she caught the fox 
under the stomach and killed it just as he got to her. The bitch will not 
Weigh over eighteen pounds, but she had tiie grit in her, ulthongk fagged 
out by her long chase. 1 w'ouHl have given n $10 note to.have seen it, 
even if cotton has gone to tun and il half and bacon fifteen cents. 
We have had less game this season titan I have evur known. I don’t 
think it Is too much shot gun, bnt too little grain—all of we Southerners 
still preferring to keep our "corn cribs” and “smoke houses” out West. 
Our streams are nearly devoid of game fish, which I think is caused 
from cultivating our red clay lauds to the waters edge, and every min 
carries its tons of the soil into our creeks, and 1 don’t believe that Col. 
Keth Green with, his corps of fish commissioners can*ever do us any 
good. 
I noticed one of your correspondents in speaking of “gator shooting,” 
says they will sink. I had some sport on Cumberland Island last fall, 
and all that sank I thought 1 missed; several that ! killed were floating 
with thetr yellow bellies upward, and the gentleman with whom I was, 
told me that they would always iloat when killed. It is rather singular 
that some of your correspondents don’t write of that island. “Georgia” 
I know Can, after he gels through, his fight about "Irish' setters." Cum¬ 
berland has been a favorite resort for years for hunting parties from 
Savannah and Macon. _ Jared. 
—Thu New England Amateur Base Ball Association— 
a misnomer, by I lie way, as regular professional clubs 
belong to it—held its annual meeting Moreli 21st, at Boston, 
when the following clubs were uj onti •. I“'t!i-hgnlw :— 
Suffolk, of Boston; Pall River, ot Pull River; Tuunto.i, of 
Tnunioii; Lowell, of Lowell; Live Oaks, of Lynn; Rhode 
Island, of Providence, and the New Haven Club,of New Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. Nearly all these clubs run ona professional basis. 
The season for the contesting of the championship of the 
New England Slates, as established by the convention, is 
from May tst to November 1st of each year. The follow¬ 
ing officers were elected:—President, J. G, Peck, Rhode 
Island Club; Vice President, \yilliam Rotch, Fall River 
01u.ii; Secretary, J. H, Marqutze, Suffolk; Treasurer, R. 
VV. Townsend, Taunton. 
—The Enterprise Base Ball Club of New York organ 1 
ized on March 28th, 1876, aud the following officers were 
elected:—C. Kundahl, President; S. E. Mott, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent; Morris Meyer, Secretary; Max Meyer, Treasurer; G. 
Stack, Captain. ' The nine for this year will be G. Stack, 
2d b.; P. Hicky, 1st b.; K. L). Powler, 3d b. ; B. R. Moore, 
s. s.; E. Werner, c.; C. Baier, p.; Ifundab), 1. f.; C. Wer¬ 
ner, c. f.; W. O’Connor, r. f. Communications to be sent 
to M. Meyer, 15 Centre street, Ntw York. 
—A base ball convention is to be held in Syracuse, N. 
Y., on April 10th. At this meeting a championship em¬ 
blem for competition among clubs within the jurisdiction 
of the association will bo decided upon, at which time a 
code of rules governing the contest will also be adopted. 
—Carrying out their peculiar plan of operations for 
1876, the St. Louis Club have appointed Mr. Geary Captain 
of their nine. 
—Anson will not play ball this season. He is going to 
open a hand ball and racket court in Philadelphia in May. 
—The first regular match game played by a professional 
club this season was that which took place in New Haven, 
March 29th, the score of which was aa follows:— 
Now Haven.3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3-8 
Star.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0—1 
Umpire—Me. Ayers, of the New Haven Gray Club; Time of game— 
two hours and five minutes; first, base by errors—New Haven, 3; Stars* 
3; runs earned—New Haven, 3; Stars, 4. 
—The chess tournament in progress at the Cafe Interna¬ 
tional in this city increases in interest every week. The 
record up to April 3d, is as follows:— 
Flayers Games won. Games lost. Games drawn. 
Alberoni. 5 0 2 
Ensor. 5 0 0 
Mackenzie. 4 0 0 
Richardson. 4 1 0 
Roser. 4 2 0 
Becker. 3 1 2 
bird. 2 1 f) 
Brenzinger,,,..... i 1 0 
Mason... 1 J 3 
Holmar. Jl 0 1 
HacMing md § oaf inn. 
A.U communication* from Secretaries and friends should be mailed no 
later than Monday in each week. 
HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 
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The English University Boat Race.— On Saturday 
this great rowing eveDt will be decided on the river Thames 
or “ Toms,” as tlic Cockneys call it, between Mortlake and 
Putney. Wo recently published the names and weights of 
the sixteen contestants—sixteen if we omit the coxswains, 
who, however, can be largely instrumental in compassing 
either defeat or victory. Since then there has been no 
variation in the formation of the crews unless it is in the 
weights. It is rather a remarkable fact that there is but a 
pound and a half difference ift the total Weight of the 
crews ; this slight disparity, apparently in favor of Oxford, 
being counterbalanced by tbe fact, tlmt her coxswain 
weighs six pounds more than the Oamhridge “boal-steer- 
er,” and that she consequently has this addilional amount 
of (lead-weight to carry. As the tide suits early in the 
forenoon, the race will probably he rowed at an early hour, 
and allowing for the difference in time by which the elec¬ 
tric current is able to beat the sun, we should have the 
news of the result by nine or ten o’clock on Saturday 
morning. The latest betting intelligence received by cable 
showed, that (h» Cambridge crew were favoriles at odds of 
5 to 4. Bell's Life , the great authority in Buell matters said, 
in last Saturday’s issue, that “if the Cantabs’ cau stay, 
they should win, if style is any criterion of merit. ” 
—Boating men will be pained to learn of the accident 
Which is reported to have occurred to Mr. Eldred of lhe 
Argonaula crew now sojourning in Florida. It is said 
that his gun was accidentally discharged, blowing away 
the second finger aud thumb of his left hand. This unfor¬ 
tunate accident will not only put Mr. Eldred hors da com¬ 
bat as far as rowing is concerned, but deprives the Argo¬ 
naula Association of their stroke and best bower. Being with¬ 
out details we are at a less to understand.liow such an acci¬ 
dent could have occurred. Every shooting man lias a 
breech-loader nowadays, and almost the chief merit of 
the new gun is its greater safely. Accidents of late years 
have not only been far less in numbers, hut have been 
caused iD most cases by the carelessness Of some one be¬ 
sides the party injured, and it seems almost incredible that 
a man should blow bis own fingers off, except by the 
bursting of his gun. 
Since the above was in type the crew have arrived from 
Florida, and we have heard more particulars regarding Mr. 
Eldrcd’s lamentable accident. It appears that iu company 
with two of his companions he had just started on a 
shooting trip. Eldred was rowing the boat, and as they 
wero about landiug, one of the party, standing in the stern, 
shot a duck. At the same time tbe boat touched bottom, 
and the shock threw the shooter off his balance, and in 
saving himself he dropped the gun; the remaining barret 
was by some means discharged within a few inches of Mr. 
Eldred’s hand. The whole load, after taking off part of his 
second Auger, passed through the handle of the oar leaving 
a hole as clean as though cut with an augur, cut off part of 
his thumb, and struck the large buckle of the belt ho had 
around his waist, bending it into a shapeless mass. Not¬ 
withstanding this protection a number of shot entered his 
abdomen, but fortunately without inflicting any serious 
wound. They were twelve miles from camp, aud upon 
reaching there Mr. Eldred was obliged to ride thirty miles 
on horseback before a doctor could be found to dress his 
wounds. 
— Bell's Lfe, referring to the International regatta lo take 
place at Philadelphia, remarks: “ We have no knowledge 
of any English racing yacht likely t,o participate in the In¬ 
ternational Regatta at Philadelphia from June 22 to June 
26. Several cruising crafts, we believe, are going across to 
the Centennial. The schooner Helen, of 283 tons, has 
already left Cowes, for Philadelphia.” 
—The following good story is told of Rev. Dr. John Todd, 
whom every one knows was an excellent angler and hunter. 
A friend sent Mm a wherry, and this story is told ot his 
misadventure in attempting to navigate the little craft: 
“One Summer afternoon he ordered his man to bring up 
tbe wagon aud take him and the little boat down to a re¬ 
tired spot on the river and leave him there. An hour or 
two later there came up a heavy shower, and in the midst 
of the pouring rain Doctor Todd appeared, drenched to 
the skin. lie was immediately taken in hand and carefully 
tended, and after the shower was over the wagou was scut for 
the boat; and no one would ever have attributed lhe wetting 
to anytMng but the shower had not an old farmer, wander¬ 
ing along the riparian boundary of his land, arrived at the 
spot just in time to see him crawl up from the bottom of 
the river. But no such misadventure with oue of his hob¬ 
bies ever checked his en’.husism ahout another, or, indeed, 
more than temporarily cooled his ardor about the Very 
one that threw him. And, though he kept Itis failure to 
himself as much as possible, yet when found out he would 
join iu the laugh at himself with the most amiable and 
hearty good-nature.” 
—Darwin says: “Man is the only being of ihaaninal 
creation that abuses the female of bis race.” 
